Thursday, July 9, 2009

How to safeguard our personal and financial data ?







When your kids are sick, you tend to bring them to the clinic or hospital to get a medical treatment, and doctors will provide some medicine for the cold or fever.

Just like we human's, our computer and softwares are vulnerable to catch a "Cold" also. This may eventually threatens the organizational's online security and expose our data to unwanted parties.
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Now, here come's the problem.
How are we going to safeguard our personal and financial data ?
And,
Do you think the current measurement is sufficient to secure us from this threats ?

The following are some simple measurement that can be taken to curb the problems:

  • Use and maintain anti-virus software and a firewall
  • Scan your computer for spyware regulary
  • Try to avoid unsed software programs
  • Consider of using seperate computer accounts
  • Use passwords pr encrypt sensitive files
  • Follow corporate policies for handling and storing work-related information
  • Make sure your software are always up to date.

With such advancement of technology, there's still no 100% guarantee of measurement to safeguard us from these kind of threats.

However, there are yet ways to minimize this threats.

It is advisable for everyone to

Bewise, Beware and Becareful.

The End.








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